Background
- Graduated from Ankara College in 1984
- BA in English Linguistics, Hacettepe University in 1989
- MA in Linguistics, University of Oslo in 1993
- Research fellow, University of Oslo 1995-1999
- Guest researcher at Tilburg University, The Netherlands in 1996 and at the University of South Carolina USA in 1997
- Dr.of Arts in Linguistics, University of Oslo in 2000
- Post Doc. fellow, University of Oslo from 2002- 2006
- Lecturer in Turkish, at the Oslo University College 2007-2008
- Researcher at Skådalen kompetansesenter, later at Bredtvet kompetansesenter Dept. for Specific Language impairments Statped Sørøst, since 2009-2018
- Senior lecturer (Associate Prof.) in Turkish, UiO since 2008 and current (Lecturer in Turkish (UiO 1993-2008)
- Researcher and Core Group member at MultiLing, ILN, UiO 2013-2018
Teaching and tutoring
Special fields
- Modern Turkish Language
- Turkish Linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Bilingualism
- Codeswitching
- Turkish in Norway-Turkish as a Heritage language
Research projects
- Completed in 2006: Post doc. project: "Language use in a bilingual setting. Towards a language shift?"
Tags:
Turkish,
Linguistics,
Middle East,
Sociolinguistics,
Multilingualism,
Codeswitching,
CIMS
Publications
- 2019 "The acquisition of Turkish (genitive-) possessive structures by adult Norwegian Learners", (sammen med Gözde Mercan), in Teachability and Learnability across Languages, R. Arntzen, G. Håkansson, A. Hjelde, J-U. Kessler (eds.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 205-234.
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- 2009 "Formvalg i tospråklige barns muntlige fremstillinger", in Flerspråklighet i skolen. Universitetsforlaget, Rita E Hvistendahl (red.). ISBN 978-82-15-01196-7. Artikkel. s 61 - 67
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- 2005 “Resisting the grammatical change: Nominal groups in Turkish- Norwegian codeswitching”. In The International Journal of Bilingualism, Vol. 9, Nr.394, 453-476
- 2000 “The man from east and west” Reviews of Turkish Literature and Turkey's image in Norway in the 1990s. (sammen med Sehnaz Tahir), in The image of the Turk in Europe from the declaration of the Republic in 1923 to the 1990s. Ed. Nedret Kuran Burçoglu, Istanbul: The Isis Press, 67-86.
- 2000 "Turkish-Norwegian Codeswitching. Evidence from Intermediate and Second Generation Turkish Immigrants in Norway". Avhandling for Doktor Artium graden ved Universitet i Oslo. Acta Humaniora, no: 83
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Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Lundquist, Björn; Rodina, Yulia; Tengesdal, Eirik; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen & Türker, Emel
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(2024).
Cross-linguistic effects in grammatical gender assignment and predictive processing in L1 Greek, L1 Russian, and L1 Turkish speakers of Norwegian as a second language.
Second Language Research.
ISSN 0267-6583.
41(1),
p. 217–259.
doi:
10.1177/02676583241227709.
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The present study examines grammatical gender knowledge in offline production (gender marking on indefinite articles) and online gender processing (visual world paradigm) in adult second language (L2) learners of Norwegian with three different first languages (L1s): Greek, Russian, and Turkish. In particular, it investigates the role of the following factors: (1) presence vs. absence of grammatical gender in L1 (Norwegian, Greek and Russian have gender, whereas Turkish does not), (2) lexical gender congruency, (3) structural similarity between L1 and L2 in the realization of gender, and (4) proficiency in L2. In offline production, no difference was found between the three L2 groups: they all overused the default gender (masculine). However, L1 effects were observed in the eye-tracking task, where the high-proficiency L1 Greek and L1 Russian speakers showed earlier and more prominent signs of predictive gender processing compared to the high-proficiency L1 Turkish speakers. There were no effects of lexical gender congruency or structural similarity. This suggests that, when it comes to predictive gender processing, what matters is proficiency and the presence vs. absence of grammatical gender in the L1. We interpret the findings in the context of current approaches to predictive processing emphasizing the role of cue reliability and utility.
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Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der & Mercan, Gözde
(2019).
The acquisition of Turkish (genitive-) possessive structures by adult Norwegian learners.
In Arntzen, Ragnar; Håkansson, Gisela Anne-Marie; Hjelde, Arnstein & Kessler, Jörg-U. (Ed.),
Teachability and learnability across languages. Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research and Teaching.
John Benjamins Publishing Company.
ISSN 9789027203120.
p. 205–234.
doi:
10.1075/palart.6.10hei.
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Teachability and Learnability across Languages addresses key issues in second, foreign and heritage language acquisition, as well as in language teaching. Focusing on a Processability Theory perspective, it brings together empirical studies of language acquisition, language teaching, and language assessment. For the first time, a research timeline for the role of instruction in language learning is presented, showing how the field of second language acquisition (SLA) research has developed over the last four decades since Pienemann’s work on learnability and syllabus construction over the 1980s. The book includes studies of child and adult second as well as foreign language acquisition research, covering a wide range of target languages including English, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. In addition, future extensions of PT are discussed. This volume is designed for advanced students in international programs of SLA and Applied Linguistics as well as for SLA researchers and second and foreign language teachers.
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Turker, Emel
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Resisting the grammatical change: Nominal groups in Turkish-Norwegian codeswitching.
International Journal of Bilingualism.
ISSN 1367-0069.
9(3&4),
p. 453–476.
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Lundquist, Björn; Rodina, Yulia; Tengesdal, Eirik; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Türker, Emel & Fyndanis, Valantis
(2024).
Cross-linguistic effects in grammatical gender assignment and predictive processing in L1 Greek, L1 Russian, and L1 Turkish speakers of Norwegian as a second language.
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Heiden, Emel Türker-van der & Mercan, Gözde
(2023).
Order of Presentation of Grammatical Components in Elementary-Level L2 Turkish Coursebooks.
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Mercan, Gözde & Heiden, Emel Türker-van der
(2021).
Reflections on the online teaching of Turkish from Canadian and Norwegian perspectives.
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Mercan, Gözde & Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der
(2020).
Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language Online during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Lundquist, Bjørn; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Fyndanis, Valantis; Rodina, Yulia; Tengesdal, Eirik & Kaldhol, Nina Hagen
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Inter-language gender congruency has facilitative effects on L2 production and comprehension of grammatical gender, but only for high-proficient speakers
of structurally similar languages.
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Nistov, Ingvild; Nordanger, Marte & Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der
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Språkideologi, språkbruk og identitet i tre generasjoner.
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Akinci, Mehmet Ali; Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der; Nistov, Ingvild; Nordanger, Marte; Sevinc, Yesim & Kirec, Cemre
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"Three Generations, Two Languages, One Family* "The case of Turkish in France and Norway. (*Li Wei (1994) ).
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Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der & Mercan, Gözde
(2016).
Learning Turkish as a Second/Foreign Language: Genitive and Possessive structures.
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Mercan, Gözde & Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der
(2016).
Yabancı Dil Olarak Türkçe
Öğrenen Norveçli Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Yazılı Metinlerinde İlgi-İyelik Yapıları (The Genitive-Possessive Structures in the Written Texts of Norwegian University Students Learning Turkish as a Foreign Language).
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Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der & Mercan, Gözde
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The Acquisition of Turkish Genitive-Possessive Structures by Norwegian Learners.
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Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der & Mercan, Gözde
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The Acquisition of L3/Ln Morphosyntax in Norwegian Learners of Turkish.
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Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der & Mercan, Gözde
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The Acquisition of Turkish as a Foreign/Second language by Adult Norwegian Learners: Genitive-Possessive Structures.
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Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der & Mercan, Gözde
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Morphosyntactic development of (L2) Turkish among adult learners.
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Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der & Sevinc, Yesim
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Lexical and Structural Characteristics of Turkish Spoken in the Netherlands and in Norway.
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Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Lanza, Elizabeth; Hansen, Pernille & Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der
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”Flerspråklige barns leksikalske utvikling: metoder og perspektiver”.
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Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der & Vonen, Arnfinn Muruvik
(2011).
Kunnskapsstatus og kunnskapsbehov ved området hørselsnedsettelse og flerspråklighet.
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Backus, Ad & Heiden, Emel Türker-Van der
(2009).
Synchronic use of Turkish yapmak and the diachronic changes it leads to.
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Turker, Emel
(2006).
”Bilingual Turkish children’s use of Turkish in Norway: How to tell a story? Narratives of 5- and 9-year-old Turkish-Norwegian bilinguals”.
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Tahir, Sehnaz & Turker, Emel
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"The Man from East-West". Reviews of Turkish Literature and Turkey's Image in Norway in the 1990s.
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Turker, Emel
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Turkish as an immigrant language: A descriptive study of second generation immigrant Turkish in Norway.
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Turker, Emel
(1995).
Norsk-Tyrkisk kodeveksling: Presentasjon av Dr. Art. prosjektet.
[Radio].
NRK Invandrer redaksjon, tyrkisk.
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Turker, Emel
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Turkish-Norwegian Codeswitching: Evidence from Intermediate and Second Generation Turkish Immigrants in Norway.
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Codeswitching is briefly defined as the use of two or more languages, dialects, etc. within the same flow of discourse. This study describes and analyses a data set of Turkish/Norwegian codeswitching in an immigrant language contact setting. One of its aims is to apply the Matrix Language Frame model (Myers Scotton 1993 and subsequent publications) on the data collected from five intermediate and three second generation Turks living in Norway. The dissertation focuses on switching between Turkish and Norwegian within a sentence, more specifically within a CP (projection of Complementizer). Another aim of this dissertation is to analyse and explain thoroughly some language-specific constructions found in the data. A third aim is to describe the signs of language shift to Norwegian. As well as describing and analysing the data, the author makes suggestions on how the Matrix Language Frame model might be modified. She also discusses the explanatory power of some of its hypotheses; such as Embedded Language islands and the Composite Matrix Language. As a contribution to the codeswitching literature, this dissertation is the first one written on Turkish and Norwegian.
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Turker, Emel
(2000).
Turkish-Norwegian Codeswitching. Evidence from Intermediate and Second Generation Turkish Immigrants in Norway.
Universitetet i Oslo.
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Codeswitching is briefly defined as the use of the two or more languages, dialects, etc. within the same flow of discourse. This study describes and analyses a data set of Turkish/Norwegian codeswitching in an immigrant language contact setting. One of its aims is to apply the Matrix Language Frame model (Myers-Scotton 1993 and subsequent publications) on the data collected from five intermediate and three second generation Turks living in Norway. The dissertation focuses on switching between Turkish and Norwegian within a sentence, more specifically within a CP (projection of Complementizer). Another aim of this dissertation is to analyse and explain thoroughly some language-specific constructions found in the data. A third aim is to describe the signs of language shift to Norwegian. As well as describing and analysing the data, the author makes suggestions on how the Matrix Language Frame model might be modified. She also discusses the explanatory power of some of its hypotheses; such as Embedded Language islands and the Composite Matrix Language. As a contribution to the codeswitching literature, this dissertation is the first one written on Turkish and Norwegian.
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